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River Flood Watch 34, NWS Northern Indiana

April 26, 2011Carroll County, White County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this river flood watch at Apr 26, 2011, 1:44 PM EDT for Carroll County, White County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 26, 2011, 1:44 PM EDT (17:44 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 2011, 12:54 AM EDT
In force
35 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Flood severity
None

Counties Carroll County, IN, White County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Tippecanoe River at Norway Dam (NWYI3).

Minor stage
13 ft
Moderate stage
20 ft
Major stage
23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood watch went out at Apr 26, 1:10 PM EDT, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 1:10 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 12:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1213 PM EDT TUE APR 26 2011

INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-
015-016-024-025-271615-
LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE-
PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-
MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-BERRIEN-
CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-
HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND...
MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA...
KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...
WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...ROCHESTER...WARSAW...
WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE...
MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH...
NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR...
BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...NILES...
BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...
STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON...
ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA...
PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA
1213 PM EDT TUE APR 26 2011 /1113 AM CDT TUE APR 26 2011/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO...
SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

WATER LEVELS ON MANY AREA RIVERS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE THIS
AFTERNOON. PLEASE CONSULT RIVER PRODUCTS ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE
FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON RIVER FLOOD WATCHES AND WARNINGS.

SOUTH WINDS WILL GUST TO 30 TO 40 MPH THIS AFTERNOON.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AS CONDITIONS
BECOME MORE UNSTABLE. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING WITH
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT...ALONG WITH
LOCALIZED HEAVY DOWNPOURS IN THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS.

MORE RAIN WILL LIFT NORTHWARD INTO THE AREA LATE TONIGHT INTO
WEDNESDAY. MANY AREAS REMAIN SATURATED FROM RECENT HEAVY
RAINFALL...AND ADDITIONAL RAIN LATE TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MAY
LEAD TO FLOODING CONCERNS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

RIVER FLOODING WILL BECOMING INCREASINGLY LIKELY FOR MID TO LATE
WEEK AS RUNOFF FROM MORE RAIN FROM TODAY AND WEDNESDAY WILL LEAD
TO ADDITIONAL RIVER RISES.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
NIGHT...MAINLY ACROSS EASTERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO. SOME OF
THE STORMS IN THIS AREA COULD BE SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX

LMZ043-046-271615-
NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI-
1213 PM EDT TUE APR 26 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF
SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT WILL PERSIST THROUGH THIS EVENING.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT CAN BE EXPECTED AGAIN LATE
WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY EVENING.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/?N=MARINE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 9:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchIWXAdams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Grant, Huntington and 6 more7 hr
Apr 25, 9:54 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen6 days
Apr 25, 9:54 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAdams, Allen6 days
Apr 26, 12:18 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXFulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke9 days
Apr 26, 3:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchIWXAdams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more37 hr
Apr 26, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXPulaski30 min
Apr 26, 5:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXPulaski30 min
Apr 26, 5:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXLaPorte33 min
Apr 26, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaPorte, Saint Joseph42 min
Apr 26, 5:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXMarshall29 min
Apr 26, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall32 min
Apr 26, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble20 min
Apr 26, 7:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXPulaski36 min
Apr 25, 9:54 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXDefiance, Henry6 days
Apr 25, 9:54 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXWilliams48 hr
Apr 25, 9:54 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen, Paulding, Putnam62 hr
Apr 25, 10:04 PM EDTRiver Flood WatchIWXPutnam20 hr
Apr 26, 5:48 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXPutnam52 hr
Apr 26, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBerrien, Cass38 min
Apr 26, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXVan Buren15 min
Apr 26, 7:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXCass37 min

Nearby

River Flood Watches in Indiana, 2011Every river flood watch in 2011

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.